NCJ Number
80314
Journal
Criminology Volume: 19 Issue: 3 Dated: (November 1981) Pages: 328-343
Date Published
1981
Length
16 pages
Annotation
This study deals with interrelationships among system affirmation, intolerance of minorities or minority viewpoints, and support for a tough role for the police and courts in the criminal justice system.
Abstract
Using data from a survey of 'Middletown' (Muncie, Indiana), all three of these concepts are - as expected - moderately highly interrelated. Those high in system affirmation are also high in intolerance, and they are high in support for a tough role for the police and courts. Further, combining system affirmation and intolerance measures into typologies accentuates the independent effects of these concepts on a hard-line approach to 'law and order' issues. (Publisher abstract)